Landsasse
As a country Assen (in short: Lansten or landsässige subjects ) were in Germany in the late Middle Ages and early modern times those landlords called or nobles who, unlike the Empire immediacy of the direct rule territorial lord were subjected.
Group of people
Landsassen were the group of people who were not subject to any manorial or municipal jurisdiction , but had their place of jurisdiction with the sovereign. As a rule, residency was tied to the possession of a property in the respective territory. Most of the residents were nobles , including corporations directly subordinate to the prince, such as B. Monasteries could be land based. In some places there were also local farmers .
Residency was always one of the prerequisites for admission to the state parliament .
Estates
A country estate (mostly in aristocratic ownership) with the freedom of the country was designated as a country estate. Similar to the owners of court brands and manors , the owners of country estate in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period mostly also exercised administrative and judicial functions, so the lower jurisdiction over their subjects. At the turn of the 19th century, these dishes were mostly transferred to so-called patrimonial courts .
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- ↑ Hans Nicolai Andreas Jensen : fishing, historical and topographically described , Kiel 1991, p. 122